Western Front - 1989 April 18

              GOOD TIMES
Former professor
looks back on 56 years
page 5
TUESDAY
WEATHER: Partly
cloudy Wednesday, with
slightly increasing
chance of rain.
SENIOR EVALUATIONS must be
completed today for spring quar­ter
graduation.
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Financial aid forms get drug clause
By Douglas Buell
staff reporter
The federal government last month
slipped a no-drug clause in college
financial aid reports while students
weren't looking.
That means as many as 1,500
students who received their award
notices before March 21 will have to
sign new forms, said Ron Martinez,
director of Student Financial Re­sources.
Students certify under the act
that they will not make, sell, possess
or use drugs during the period of the
grant, which means the first with­drawals
may not be felt until the
coming school year.
Reissuing won't affect how much
money students are eligible for, he
said, but students will have to check
the box in order to be certified under
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
and receive federal aid.
"Those who don't sign, can't
register," he said. "Those found break­ing
the law will have their federal
grant money taken away."
About 6,000 Western students
depend on grants or loans, Martinez
said. Pell grants, Supplemental Edu­cational
Opportunity Grants and
federal work-study fall under the anti­drug
laws.
Administrators and staff said the
law could have an impact on stu­dents,
but they also questioned how
it will be enforced.
Academic Vice President Sam
Kelly said it will be based more on
the honor system than anything.
"Such funds are important to a
great number of students, but if it's
the law, it's the law."
Martinez agreed, but called it "a.
law with no teeth."
Without the means available to
track students on aid next year who
might be engaged in illegal drug
activities, the law will be ineffective,
he said.
"Unless we had an oppressive
method, such as a blood test before
getting the student aid reports, we
wouldn't be able to certify students
are drug-free," he said.
As punishment set by the courts,
drug traffickers on a first offense can
be stripped of all federal benefits for
up to five years after conviction.
Penalties for students found us­ing
or in possession of drugs may
include:
• Lossoffinancialaidforupto
one year.
• Completion of a drug-treat­ment
program which would include
periodic testing.
• Community service.
The law also states that if a stu­dent
makes a "good faith" effort to
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See Drug on page 12
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Registration
has minor
problem
By Luis Cabrera
staff reporter
Western's political science department
still isn't sure how to get minors into the
classes they want, but spring pre-registration
worked for majors and will probably be used
again in the fall, said political science profes­sor
Eugene Hogan.
The department went to early registration
in response to complaints from upper-level
majors that couldn't get the classes they
needed to graduate.
Political science minors were not allowed
to pre-register, however, and many could not
get into the department's classes.
"They should have something for mi­nors,"
said junior Michelle Staal. "Getting
classes is just as important for us."
Staal, who now has 110 credits, said she
formerly intended to major in political sci­ence,
but switched when she couldn' t get into
any upper-level classes. She said she had
considered taking political science as a sec­ond
major before spring quarter but was
again excluded from classes by her relatively
late registration time.
'It's tough," said John Warnke, a senior
criminology major who couldn't get into a
class relevant to his crime studies. "I got my
minor out of the way, bu 11 had to take another
class I wasn't interested in."
Hogan said the minors' situation is the
main reason the department has not yet de­clared
its pre-registration policy for fall quarter.
See Major on page 12
Pro-choice slogans hang as a reminder
By Doree Armstrong
staff reporter
On April 26, the United States
Supreme Court could overturn, the
1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing
abortion in the United States. The
court will hear the case of Webster v.
Reproductive Health Services, which
is about a Missouri abortion law.
A local group of citizens, who
-wish to remain anonymous, put more
than 300 hangers with pro-choice
slogans around campus late Monday
night and early this morning to pro­test
overturning the 1973 decision.
They said the protest was be­cause
"women are going to have an
abortion whether it's legal or not.
And they shouldn't be criminals for
taking charge of their own bodies."
The group of about 10 men and
women did not want their identities
known in case of possible retali­ation.
One woman said of her 18-year-old
sister, "She's just not in any way,
shape or form ready to be a mom. If
she didn't have the right to an abor­tion,
I think I'd lose my mind."
The group's main concern is to
keep abortion legal for medical rea­sons.
The hangers were used to re­mind
people of how many illegal
abortions were performed before the
Roe v. Wade ruling.
"They're symbolic of why abor­tion
needs to remain a legal proce­dure,"
one woman said.
She added that many people be­lieve
if abortion were illegal it wouldn't
happen at all.
"That's just not the case," she
said.
Another woman told of a woman
who performed an abortion on her­self
in 1962.
"Her only concern was not for
her body and her safety, but whether
she would be arrested."
Some of the pro-choice slogans
the group used include: "Only 'crimi­nals'
used this tool to abort them­selves.
Will you let it happen again?,"
"Back alley abortions kill women.
Support women's right to life," and
"No one WANTS an abortion —
See Choice on page 3